The Badalona council completed the relocation of people who came from the former B9 Institute and had settled under the highway bridge, just a few meters away, on Wednesday. The current goal is to act against the twenty homeless people who remain there, many of whom have arrived from other cities.
A 'call effect' might have occurred, after this location became the place where social entities centralized aid for homelessness following the B9 case.
The local administration invokes the civility ordinance, which expressly prohibits "camping without municipal authorization," the same reason used to evict the first occupants of B9 from the adjacent square after the mid-December eviction.
The request for permission from the Generalitat is necessary because the affected land is under the domain of the C-31 highway, and thus, the Catalan administration is the owner. This move follows strong neighborhood pressure, especially in the Sant Roc neighborhood, where the C-31 was blocked on Tuesday to protest the situation.
